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(01-29-2021 06:30 PM)Grommet Wrote:  I get why the BB-firsters would like this look. Frankly I keep forgetting how many of you there are.

As a FB-firster, I absolutely hate it. Why spend all the money for a new stadium and coaches just to cast yourself out into the desert? I look forward to *our* home-and-home with NM State in the 2024 season.

I understand this but I actually think you do not lose anything by going independent. If this turns out to be true, you are playing army and liberty every year. Those are decent games. Playing Connecticut and umass is no different than playing let's say the Florida schools. No one will care. Charlotte you play anyway. Now here where it can be really good. You have 7 games you can schedule yourself. ODU can actually make themselves a very favorable schedule. Imagine what they can come up with and then all of a sudden you become a free agent. I think you can control your destiny by doing your own schedule. BYU seems to have a better schedule now than they did in mountain west. Liberty plays a nice schedule. The bad part you might have to play a lot of 2 for 1 games or schedule more than one fcs school to fill a schedule. I think you will not have any problem with getting in a bowl even though you don't have conference tie ins, because there always seem to be more bowls than teams. Let's see we can have a schedule like maybe
UMASS LIBERTY UCONN ARMY CHARLOTTE VA TECH EAST CAROLINA NORFOLK ST BUFFALO MARSHALL NEW MEXICO ST APPALACHAIN ST

Can you live with something like that? You play 5 different conferences, one western independent a FCS school and your alliance. This can be pretty good if done correctly.

Besides the a10 will be much better financially for ODU if this is true but I'm still hearing sun belt 2.0